Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!